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How expensive of a team have the Boston Celtics been compared to their peers?

By now, even many casual fans of the NBA are aware of the fact that the Celtics’ payroll is about to get very expensive — historically so.

How expensive of a team have the Boston Celtics been compared to their peers? By now, even many casual fans of the NBA are aware of the fact that the Celtics’ payroll is about to get very expensive — historically so.

With Boston set to be the first ball club in league history to spend a half-billion dollars on salary and tax, their financial impact will quite literally make history. But what about in the years leading up to that point compared to the rest of their peers in the Association? That is the question Bleacher Report cap expert Eric Pincus broke down for all 30 teams in the league in a recent article. And he had plenty to say about Boston’s spending since 2017.

“The Celtics were not a taxpayer when the team advanced to the NBA Finals in 2022,” he writes. “The roster became much more expensive the following year ($70 million in tax) and then dipped slightly in the recent championship run ($43.8 million). That number will climb to about $66 million this year.”

“The Celtics gave out extensions out like candy (Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Jrue Holiday, Derrick White, Kristaps Porzingis and Sam Hauser) the past year-plus,” Pincus reminds us. “The team may be for sale, which could shift priorities, but any buyer will be taking on a hefty payroll.”

Have the Celtics been a cheap team compared to their output? Absolutely, for a while, as younger teams tend to be. But the current ownership group’s big push for a title needed talent added to the roster — and with that push came the historic future bill we mentioned at the outset.

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How do the NBA’s new salary cap rules affect the Boston Celtics for the coming 2024-25 season?

How much will the enhanced penalties it generates impact Boston for the coming campaign as they make a run on hanging Banner 19?

How do the NBA’s new salary cap rules affect the Boston Celtics for the coming 2024 season? As many fans of the team know all too well, the league’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was created specifically to make life difficult for contending ball clubs built like the Celtics are headed into next season.

But how much will the enhanced penalties it generates impact Boston for the coming campaign as they make a run on hanging Banner 19? Bleacher Report cap expert Eric Pincus recently surveyed the entire Association with this question in mind, and had plenty to say about the Celtics.

“As the current NBA champion, the Celtics may be the only team who should be willing to disregard the penalties of the second apron,” he writes.

“Boston has signed Jayson Tatum, Derrick White and Sam Hauser to extensions this offseason,” suggests the B/R cap expert.

“Signing players to an extension or re-signing them as free agents doesn’t trigger a hard cap, but the Celtics will have a hard time adding other players outside of the draft or for cheap in free agency.”

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Could the Celtics really trade away Jaylen Brown to save money in the future?

The basic idea being that if you can get most of the Georgia native’s production plus a haul of draft assets, similar to what was seen for the deal for Kevin Durant that sent him from the Brooklyn Nets to the Phoenix Suns, the front office might bite.

Recently, The Ringer’s Howard Beck got in touch with a number of rival front office executives about the Boston Celtics‘ impending cap crunch once the supermax contract extension of star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown kicks in next season. The piece ruffled the feathers of some Boston fans due to the suggestion that Boston’s front office might elect to trade Brown to another ball club for very good but cheaper players and draft picks.

The basic idea being that if you can get most of the Georgia native’s production plus a haul of draft assets, similar to what was seen for the deal for Kevin Durant that sent him from the Brooklyn Nets to the Phoenix Suns, the front office might bite.

The hosts of the CLNS Media “How Bout Them Celtics!” talked themselves through such a scenario on a recent episode.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say.

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Boston Celtics field two rosters among most expensive in NBA history

You might be surprised by the seasons they happened in.

Outlandish, perhaps even out-of-control spending has become such a problem for NBA payrolls that the league went out of its way to penalize the most egregious ball clubs which spend more than $17.5 million over the league’s luxury tax line in the new collective bargaining agreement recently agreed to by the Association and the Players’ Union.

And with a total of 17 championships to their name over the history of the league, you would think that the Boston Celtics would be among the franchises with some of the most expensive payrolls over that stretch. But in a new analysis of such clubs compared to the spending in the rest of the league put together by our friends at Hoops Hype, the Celtics have only landed in the 30 most expensive teams in history twice. You might be surprised which years it was so, as well.

Let’s take a look at both.

Celtics projected to be an over-the-cap, taxpaying team for the 2023-24 season

That means another hefty tax bill for Boston if the roster stays similarly constructed — but that’s what the team’s front office has been working to get to for years.

Given the Boston Celtics are a contending team on the upswing, it should not come as a surprise that Hoops Hype’s Yossi Gozlan is projecting the club to operate as an over-the-cap, taxpaying squad next season.

In a recent article surveying the NBA’s cap space for the 2023-24 season, Gozlan relates the Celtics “are projected to be significant taxpayers again next season, but are set to have a smaller penalty compared to this season thanks to Al Horford’s $16.5 million pay cut for next season.”

“Their roster is already mostly set with 12 players under contract assuming they keep Mike Muscala and Sam Hauser,” continues the H/H cap expert.

“Their biggest decisions for the offseason include re-signing restricted free agent Grant Williams and potentially using the taxpayer MLE,” Gozlan finishes.

We expect Williams, Muscala and Hauser back in the fold for next season, barring an absolute whale of an offer for the Tennessee alumnus in restricted free agency.

That means another hefty tax bill for Boston if the roster stays similarly constructed, but that’s what the team’s front office has been working to get to for years, so no reason to fret for at least a few seasons in terms of finances for the Celtics.

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Celtics Lab 152: Navigating Boston’s ‘big’ cap concerns with Yossi Gozlan

With rumbles of interest for Grant Williams surfacing and Al Horford’s deal ending, should Celtics fans be worried about the frontcourt’s future?

The Boston Celtics and Grant Williams could not come to terms on a rookie scale extension for the Tennessee alumnus ahead of the 2022-23 NBA season, with Williams instead electing to bet on himself. How could this play out for both parties given we’re hearing rumbles of interest from opposing teams? How does the looming free agency of Al Horford affect Boston’s cap space outlook?

The backdrop for Boston’s offseason financial concerns for their frontcourt also takes shape with a likely cap spike and looming media rights deal that could transform labor negotiations ahead of the league’s next collective bargaining agreement, so what might something like a hard cap mean for Boston?

To get a look at some lingering but timely issues from a teambuilding perspective, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with HoopsHype cap guru Yossi Gozlan to talk over the contours of the Celtics’ and NBA’s cap management concerns, with an unvarnished view of the team’s start thrown in for good measure.

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Your usual hosts Cameron Tabatabaie and Justin Quinn also touch on Kyrie Irving’s suspension in the context of a lot of bad NBA news percolating to the surface all at once this week.

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Full Boston Celtics 17-player payroll for the 2022-23 NBA season

This is every player on Boston’s roster to start the 2022-23 NBA season — and what they will earn in it.

With Opening Night almost upon us and the Boston Celtics set to kick off their 2022-23 NBA regular season against their Atlantic Division rival Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at TD Garden, the Celtics have their regular season roster set, having culled their roster to the league maximum of 15 regular players and two two way prospects.

With the moves comes some clarity about what the team will be paying whom at the start of their campaign to win Banner 18 this summer. The players and their salaries can of course change via trades, cuts, and signings between now and the start of the 2023 NBA Playoffs when rosters are set for the postseason, but for the present, we have a Celtics roster set for the regular season.

Let’s take a look at who made the cut, and how much they will be earning.

Shams: NBA cap to rise to $134M for 2023-24, framework in place for in-season tourney

The tournament will be part of the league’s 82-game schedule, per reports.

Per the Athletic’s Shams Charania, the NBA announced the salary cap for the 2023-23 NBA season is projected to be $134 million, about $10.4 million higher than this season, with a $162 million tax level. Both figures are $1 million higher than previous projections, which is sure to be welcomed by a Boston Celtics franchise with designs on contending over that period.

Charania indicated the league has a working framework for a potential, long-rumored in-season tournament. The Athletic NBA insider reported the tournament would take place in November as part of the league’s regular 82-game season. Other details are still to be ironed out between the league and the National Basketball Players Association.

It was also reported by Charania that eight teams would advance to a single-elimination final stage in December, with the two last teams left playing one extra game over the usual 82.

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8 best salary cap bargains for Packers this season

Highlighting the eight best salary cap bargains for the Packers in 2022.

Building a competitive football team under the salary cap is a delicate process for NFL general managers like Brian Gutekunst of the Green Bay Packers. He must structure contracts to create bargains year-to-year, especially with an MVP quarterback taking up a big chunk of the cap and future cap.

A bargain can be considered any player with a cap hit lower than the expected contributions to a team that year.

Here are the eight best salary cap bargains for the Packers in 2022:

Extension for Preston Smith saves Packers $8M on 2022 salary cap

The Packers are getting $8 million in cap savings on Preston Smith’s contract extension.

The contract extension for outside linebacker Preston Smith is going to save the Green Bay Packers a bunch of much-needed money on the salary cap in 2022.

According to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Smith’s four-year extension slashes $8 million off of the team’s salary cap this year.

Smith was scheduled to count around $19.7 million on the cap before the extension.

With an $8 million reduction on Smith’s number, the Packers are now in the range of $36 million over the cap, meaning more moves are coming.

The new deal is a win for both sides. The Packers receive cap relief in 2022 and get to keep a valuable player at a premium position over several more years, while Smith gets money up front ($12 million signing bonus) and the long-term security of a lucrative multi-year deal.

The Packers entered Monday at around $44 million over the salary cap. An extension for Smith moves the team closer to getting under the cap by Wednesday, the start of the new league year.

Smith delivered nine sacks and a career-high 62 pressures last season. He bounced back after a disappointing 2020 season and is now in Green Bay’s plans for several more seasons.

The new deal ties Smith to the Packers through the 2026 season.

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